Ophelia
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Ophelia is a savvy and resourceful sex worker in the 1983 comedy film "Trading Places," who helps the protagonist navigate his sudden reversal of fortune.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ophelia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3239569 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ophelia Context triple: [Trading Places, mainCharacter, Ophelia]
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A.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
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B.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
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C.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a fictional character best known as the tragic, doomed heroine of William Shakespeare’s play "Hamlet."
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D.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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E.
Ophelia Among the Flowers
"Ophelia Among the Flowers" is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon that reimagines Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia in a dreamlike, floral setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ophelia Target entity description: Ophelia is a savvy and resourceful sex worker in the 1983 comedy film "Trading Places," who helps the protagonist navigate his sudden reversal of fortune.
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A.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
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B.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
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C.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a fictional character best known as the tragic, doomed heroine of William Shakespeare’s play "Hamlet."
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D.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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E.
Ophelia Among the Flowers
"Ophelia Among the Flowers" is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon that reimagines Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia in a dreamlike, floral setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ sex worker ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Trading Places ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
class reversal
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economic inequality ⓘ sex work ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
independent
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pragmatic ⓘ resourceful ⓘ savvy ⓘ streetwise ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Herschel Weingrod
NERFINISHED
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Timothy Harris ⓘ |
| createdFor | Trading Places ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | John Landis ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Trading Places
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surface form:
Trading Places universe
|
| filmGenreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| filmProductionCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| filmReleaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| helpsCharacter | Louis Winthorpe III ⓘ |
| helpsWith |
exposing the Duke brothers
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navigating sudden loss of wealth ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
ally of Louis Winthorpe III
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deuteragonist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging stereotypes about sex workers
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wit and financial savvy ⓘ |
| occupation | sex worker ⓘ |
| partOfCastType | supporting character ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jamie Lee Curtis ⓘ |
| relationshipWithLouisWinthorpeIII | romantic interest ⓘ |
| setting | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| workOfFiction | Trading Places ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1983 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ophelia Description of subject: Ophelia is a savvy and resourceful sex worker in the 1983 comedy film "Trading Places," who helps the protagonist navigate his sudden reversal of fortune.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.